April 12, 2008
Googlegängers
In “Finding Angela Shelton,” a book published this month, a writer named Angela Shelton describes her meetings with 40 other Angela Sheltons. Why do so many feel a connection with utter strangers just because they share the same name? From her blog Angela Shelton's Big Mouth
Screaming really loud on the new flickr video. Screams will be judged on volume, pitch, location, and interestingness
Why is Google so secretive about its data centers? Map of all Google data center locations
The 20th Century as told by Google Image Search
Grumbling about the misuse of hyperlinks on news sites in Slate’s Links That Stink
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March 03, 2008
Naming success
You want a secret to success for your latest Web venture? I can tell you in two syllables: Trochee.
A trochee or choree, choreus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. It consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.
Can it be that simple? See for yourself. Find the most popular Web sites. Say their names out loud. Ponder the stress pattern -
YouTube
eBay
Reddit
SlashDot
Flickr
Google
Yahoo
MySpace
FaceBook
PayPal
Craigslist
Orkut
Wordpress
Blogspot
Netflix....
(Original insight by Mike Pope)
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Leg tat at the 11ª Convenção Internacional de Tattoo. (From No touch monkey)
Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?
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February 28, 2008
Introduction to Gmail in Russian
(From Gmail blog)
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February 24, 2008
Internet Museum
Location: Carthage, Tennessee
Ground-breaking Ceremony Date: May of 1996
Projected Completion Date: August of 1999
Sponsors: Prodigy, AOL, Netscape Navigator, Hotbot.com, Microsoft's Windows '95
Current Status: Under Construction
Yes, there is a better search engine, a Salon article by Scott Rosenberg from December 1998
The 100 most visited websites worldwide, according to Alexa (which is owned by Amazon, No. 32 on that list)
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February 07, 2008
Do you remember a time…
Don’t mess with admins - The admins are drunk
Do you remember a time before every movie trailer and TV commercial ended with a WWW address??
Internet Pornography Statistics. (Not sure how accurate these are)
Porn For Girls By Girls (SFW)
Re-post: An old blog displaying only Riot Porn
Draw 1 to get 1, with Sketch swap
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January 16, 2008
No Porn Pledge
“Playful and deceptively simple”: A Chat with the Designer of the Google Logo
Take the No Porn Pledge if you so choose
This is about how I spend 24 concentrated hours spread out over 4 days during Holidays to build the online service Wigitize.com. It is part of my ongoing learning process on how to run a successful web startup. Building a .com in 24 hours
Never heard of it: An imageboard is an internet forum that revolves around the posting of images. Popular imageboards can be hit with bandwidth consumption reaching up to eighteen terabytes per month and beyond. Apparently, one of the popular ones is 4chan which is based on the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel
The list of the official Wikipedias, all 256 of them, including the one in Volapük which is a constructed language, created in 1879–1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer in Germany, and which contains over 1,230,000 articles
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December 13, 2007
salmonerd to nsynchottie503
David Pescovitz, Mark Frauenfelder, Cory Doctorow, Xeni Jardin, John Battelle
“Instant Messenger” performed by Nick Thune. (Found on the original blog your monkey called)
A blog displaying only Riot Porn
Reddit logo archive
(I don’t remember where I found the graphic above. If I copied it from you, please let me know)
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November 21, 2007
Thank you for using the Internet
After Albers Rainbow gif by Chris Collins. (More here)
Dinosaur Sightings: This gallery showcases several 1970-era computers from Steven Stengel's vintage computer collection
Some 140 Free icons
Calling all Roys or Troys or LeRoys. Background: My Year on Craigslist
Ever Wonder Why Your Internet Went Down?
The Museum of Interactive Failure. These exhibits capture many notable Web 1.0 failures, and may have value for future historians and future entrepreneurs to study
As you may know, you are currently on the internet
200 Known Spam Operations responsible for 80% of your spam
Thank you for using the Internet
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November 05, 2007
The modem is the message
Make Growabrain Go Crazy:
1. Remove everything from the address bar, then copy & paste the following into it:
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);
2. Hit enter. Enjoy.
Procrastination: The task I must undertake is towering over me like a great big monolith
A companion to Philip Greenspun’s pages on early retirement, the following document presents some ideas for useful and fun things to do with one's money - Non-Profit Ideas
Yahoo vs. Google 1996 to 2005
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October 21, 2007
Cancel Google
Windows Startup Sounds - 1.0 to 98 to ME to Vista watch. A piano composition incorporating the sound effects heard in Windows. A different Windows remix (All YT). To get embarrassed at a public library, press here. To disable, press here. Previously-posted I’m sure: Windows noises & Icon Wars
This page now shows up as #1 for "cancel google"
Google announced plans Friday to launch a new site, TheGoogle.com, to appeal to older adults not able to navigate the original website's single text field and two clearly marked buttons
Internet Allstars ‘01: Where are they now?
Happy Median - Enter your location and a friend's location and this site will tell you where you should meet
Date-O-Matic: Today's date in over 100 languages. (Thank you, Peter)
The Rat Pack are Reunited Again!
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August 15, 2007
Kevin Mitnick's Business Card
Kevin Mitnick's Business Card
Steve Rubel's 25 year Love Affair with Computers
Celeb Heads on Facebook
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. “In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems.” (From SEO by the Sea)
The comprehensive article about wikipedia on wikipedia
Craziest Captchas on the Web. (From Download Squad)
The reddit mascot thru the years, reminiscent of Google Holiday Logos
I bought my baby on the internet
An inside angle to Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine" story, as told by Felix Gallo, a member of Metafilter
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July 23, 2007
The Future of the Internet
what the future of the web looked like in 1994. (YT)
Visualize the Internet. Akamai’s Graphics of Internet traffic
Tech's 10 most-hyped product launches
The very Big List of Internet Memes
New York Subway Map of the Internet
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June 27, 2007
MyName@MyBlogName.com
Email Obfuscation does not work. Some people think email obfuscation is a good way to fight spam. But here's what they're doing: in addition to making email more difficult for legitimate uses, they're actually making it easier for spammers
How do I know this person? Through the Web!
A nice story on Vanity Fair about how the author spent more than a year attempting to track down the shot location of a desktop picture called Autumn that came with his copy of Windows
What happened to the search engines of yesteryear?
LOL80's: A Picture Thread
I am reading Mark Frauenfelder’s new book “Rule the web - How to do anything and everything on the internet - better, faster, easier”…
50 pictures from the history of Apple
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April 25, 2007
Nails
Jorn Barger often complains to interviewers that 'weblog' is the least interesting of his many neologisms. Here's a sampling of others
Anil Dash on the explosion in popularity of lolcats
Han Hoogerbrugge’s new Nails
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March 10, 2007
Rebuilding HP's Garage
Rebuilding HP's Garage (with photos)
Not too long ago, Wikipedia had a page listing known websites with a PageRank of 10, and a large number of sites with PageRank 9. However it was decided that the page contradicted Wikipedia's article policy and so was deleted. Since I haven't seen it replicated anywhere else on the internet, I have put a copy here of domains with a PageRank of 9 and 10. (From Black Stump)
One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't
Most viewed Wikipedia articles (Last 9 days)
Also, Have a Brazilian beer on me. (Trick lifted from Necro)
(Photo above from WebProNews)
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February 26, 2007
YouTube Celebrities
Nerve Pool dream portal by Ebon Fisher
Adult Sheep Finder, The World's #1 Sheep Sex and Dating Personals Site. With Adult Sheep Finder you can meet single, sexy sheep in your area at the touch of a button
The Barenaked Ladies: Sound of Your Voice staring a number of Youtube celebrities, including Winston Spear, Barats & Bereta, Eepybird, geriatric1927, Where The Hell Is Matt, Numa Numa, Album Cover Battle, Brookers, Bh3m3, The Winekone and Evolution Of Dance
The Prisoners Of YouTube
Master Plan, a short movie about the power of Google
Hot or Not composite images
Jeff Hoard one of the top contributors to Reddit. Complete list found in the WSJ article about Hidden influencers, the top submitters to social bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Newsvine, etc.
A graphic map depicting Open Source VS. Empire of Microsoft
Santa Mail. Here’s a brilliant idea. Get a postal address at North Pole, Alaska, pretend you are Santa Claus and charge parents 10 bucks for every letter you send to their kids. 9 other Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone Rich
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February 05, 2007
First video on YouTube
Scanned 1980s computer brochures
“Excellent communication, but should've poked holes in box before shipping the kitten.” And other Unusual eBay Feedbacks
“Me at the zoo” - The very first video on YouTube
Also, What was the first thing ever sold on eBay?
Woz, Jobs and the Apple 11"x14" oil painting by Nitrozac (of Joy of Tech fame)
Interview with an Über Mac Collector
Mothers Against Maddox (MAM. Found in a story about 10 famous entertainment websites)
"I decided that I want to decrease the time I spend on surfing to a reasonable amount..."
DIGG vs. Reddit - the ultimate fight. This is a page submitted on both DIGG and Reddit at the same time. Every visitor referred from each of the websites is counted as a vote. (Since 2005, I’ve found thousands of unique stories on Digg & Reddit. Now they are “The Places” for every blogger to discover hot links)
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January 23, 2007
Google-Yahoo Mash-up
More Accurate Wikipedia Warnings
Falling down through a pub trap door - 10 years later
What if Google Made a Yahoo-like Start Page?
Problems with Misspelling Google (YouTube)
A diagram documenting every instance of the phrase "is the new" encountered from various sources
Apple 80's ad - The rug!
Fingers in fruit by Ze Frank, one of 12 of the Funniest People On The Internet
2006 weird news stories from Peculiarosities. (Part 1 & 2 only…)
Some basic URL's for future dates: 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015
The dangers of pro-anorexia websites
Adieu to Google Answers (11/28/06)
Breaking news (Sounds just like The Onion): Time Inc. Lays Off 289 Persons of the Year
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January 13, 2007
Voice of Mario
Since 1991, Charles Martinet has been the Voice of Mario
Each visitor gets a personal color and becomes part of the internet rainbow. There are currently 121585 rays of light.
1995 Netiquette code, still valid today
iPhone Parodies from Conan O’Brien and from Dog Rodeo
Wikipedia’s list of Google products includes all major standalone services and tools created or acquired by Google. They are either a gold release, in beta development, or part of the Google Labs initiative. This list also includes previous products of ones that have either been merged or discarded
With the new Google 3D models you can search, share or download 3D models for your design
What the Chinese want to know. Lists of the questions most often typed into their search engine in 2006. They're divided into "how," "why," "what," and "should I" lists. Most of the top searches are either time-honored snoozers ("What is love?") or predictably materialistic ("How to get plastic surgery?")
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December 11, 2006
Support Joe Clark in his quest for a research project
Joe Clark’s stab at micro-patronage. Help support him while he’s trying to raise $7M for an accessibility research project. With some clever ad banners designed by Antonio Cavedoni
Top Ten Servers in the Movies, a nerdy film list. (From YipYop)
The Viral Factory has compiled a list of the Top 10 Most Viewed YouTube Videos “of all times” (= since last year…)
Scamdex is a searchable, indexed archive of scams received by email
Re-post: 4096 Color Wheel
200 Firefox Extensions Installed At One Time
From Hotmail & Skype to AOL & Broadcast: 10 Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever
Tommy Charity’s 12 Days of Christmas from Rather Good
Ten Tips for Smarter Google Searches
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November 06, 2006
User Name and Password
Frustrated with the state of identity management? User Name and Password (By Darren Barefoot)
TEH INTERNETS photoset on flickr
How the Internets work: You start with Tim Berners Lee and the W3C and you wind up with PornoTube, LaLa, ytmnd and the "Numa Numa" guy
You see these logos almost every day, right? - Let's see how well you remember them. Which is the real logo?
Such strange words: Kevin Burton Google'd him on Yahoo. (In response to these instructions)
Telling it all - The official site of Peter (geriatric1927)
Other YouTube notables: Paul Robinett (Renetto), Lonelygirl 15
Britain's first "web-rage" attack
From Cloaking to Automated Inquiries - How to lower your Google ranking
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October 19, 2006
You’ve got $10?
El Edwards, The voice of You’ve Got Mail will record a customized "You've got mail" .wav file for you. (From Admit One)
An un-orthodox way of tagging your del.icio.us links (All 5 of them)...
All internet meme fads on the YTMND wiki page
A long List of acquisitions by Yahoo since 1997, in Millions of $$
Warning Signs from the Future. (Not too many graphics here that are that yellow usually...)
"Why Johnny can't" meme
All country code top-level domains (By country)
Eight biggest Google AdSense publishers, i.e., highest self-declared AdSense earnings
Thank God, Riverbend is alive and blogging again after two months of no activity
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September 23, 2006
Go Tahoe
It looks like Google put a dirtbike video on their home page for a short while & without explanation a few weeks ago. Also, Elmer Fudd Google version
SitePAl Animated avatars - Don’t you hate them? Me too
This is my powerbook g4, which after more than 5 years of hard love has stopped working.” By Sam Brown of Exploding dog
Re-post: The Therapist Finder, The Cumming First United Methodist Church and 8 other company URLs designed by stoners and drunks
How Digg Works: After less than two years, Digg has in the area of 300,000 registered users and more than 1 million unique visitors per day, with 1,500 daily news posts
Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords
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September 08, 2006
How to make a billion dollars:
Google’s original Page Rank algorithm
Gary Brolsma, the Numa Numa Guy, is back
ZeFrank Speaks at TED. (From Brain Blog). Other 2006 speakers
New Click Survey. Click anywhere within the rectangle below. You'll then see where others clicked
70,000 confidential "do not distribute" documents, distributed on Google
Craig Conley’s Future Navigator: Spin the dial at every crossroad and let Fate lead your journey. This four-tiered oracle suggests which direction to turn and alerts to special circumstances along the way
100 Most viewed Wikipedia articles
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August 24, 2006
Large and small
The Most Important Software Innovations, 1837-1994
The Iconic, historic Sharpeworld Heads
A Series of Tubes - The movie. Coming to YTMND near you
Have your portrait painted (after answering a few generic questions. From This life of mine)
Geriatric gripes & grumbles – a 78 year old English widower on YouTube
Seperated at birth - Similar patterns found in different natural phenomena
Corporate Websites from 1996. Web design in 1996 is very easy - you just format a page however you want and say, "Please open your window to the width of this line of text."
15 Websites that changed the world: Amazon used to be a large river in South America - but that was before the world wide web
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July 18, 2006
A Series of Tubes
Which websites use color schemes similiar to this ?
Flags for websites. (Any designer-reader here who would like to whip up a Grow-a-brain flag?)
We love Canada screenshot and 9 other Funny Google News
This is a contest. The prize is $100. On July 14th at 3pm EST, I will randomly choose one del.icio.us user who bookmarked this page, and send him or her this check for $100, no strings attached.
Q: How many people have bookmarked this so far?
A: 3386 as of July 16
The Massive, Tangled Up Tubes Mashup, from Evhead
What Ever Happened to Jeeves? The harrowing story of a corporate mascot's downfall. (Thank you, PB)
Internet Paintings, Google paintings and Web Drawings
Unrelated & unexplained: Secret Combination More Logos! (TouTube). You read it here first, folks.
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July 01, 2006
Reddit is where it’s at
Toolbar Frenzy. How many toolbars does your CAD package support?
Are you going to make this just another day? and other questions asked on “Just Curio”
Yahoo’s homepage transformation over the past 12 years
Many link-bloggers (like myself) have been sourcing Reddit during the last year, to pick up the “Freshest” new links, and that is exactly Why Daniel Bickett Hates Reddit
The Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour. Just one of Digg's top 30 stories this year. Found on Slate’s Digg Me or Bury Me - Using a people-powered news aggregator to attract hits
Wikipedia post about YTMND, You're The Man Now Dog
Also there, a list of Internet phenomena (memes), including non-celebrities, like the “eBay avenger" & Ellen Feiss, videos like Elektronik Supersonik & Stealth Disco, animations from The Dancing Baby to The Llama Song, and all the images on which you wasted the last 8-10 years
The most efficient way to blackmail the world
Interesting Facts About Domain Names: There are approximately 50 million .COM domains registered… Etc.
I still have 8 pages of links that I want to dump over the weekend. If I manage to post them all, I will start blogging differently. Stay tuned...
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June 09, 2006
Google VS. Microsoft
If you just type the alphabet into Google Search, you get some unexpected results for some of the letters: The the speed of light for “C”, 2.71828183 for “E”, Planck's constant for “H” and Boltzmann constant for “K”. Why just those, I don’t know
Selling structured settlements, the most expensive AdSense keyword, at $64.81 per click. What is it all about? Click (again & again) on side ads to charge somebody
This is hot, a Firefox promotional video. (Should I switch from IE?)
A side-by-side comparison of searches for Tiananmen on Google.com and Google.cn
By the way, is Google Romance for real?
Also, the next Google product Google Condoms
Steven A. Ballmer is Pudding on the Ritz
List of Google services and tools
Save the Internet: Fighting for Internet Freedom
Salon interview with George Ouzounian, known as "Maddox”
The favorite color of the internet today
More To Life On The Internet Here
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